The Israeli army has closed its investigation into the colonel who shot a 17-year-old Palestinian boy to death while he was fleeing.
Last July, Yisrael Shomer, a commander of the Binyamin Brigade, shot Muhammad al-Kasbeh with live ammunition.
Muhammad had allegedly thrown a rock at Shomer’s jeep near the military ...

We got to meet Donald Trump’s family last night in a bizarre, tedious spectacle brought to you by CNN. What did we learn from this exercise in trolling for ratings? Not much. More than anything, it came off as a bit of damage control. His daughters tried to soften their dad’s image as a sexist blowhard. Melania fielded questions from&...

Prime Minister David Cameron has been put up for sale on eBay and the bids are rolling in.
The tongue-in-cheek eBay listing was posted on Monday afternoon – shortly after the PM was labelled “dodgy Dave” by veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner in the House of Commons – and had already courted 153 bids at a highest price of &p...

When Canadian Robert Muggah started visiting the Rio de Janeiro slum known as Santa Marta, he wasn't always sure he'd make it out.
"We literally had to duck around windows and avoid the front streets because stray bullets would be bouncing around," Muggah says.
His work as research director of the Igarape Institute, a Brazil-based thi...

Her name is Andie Pauly. She's an illustrated example of America's deep divisions, and the anger that flares up between left and right.
To her critics, she's a racist troll who harasses her opponents, and she offers rewards to those who dox - reveal personal information about - her enemies. To her defenders, she's a proud conservative standing u...

Staff at the morgue are sometimes so inundated with the dead they are not able to perform autopsies.
“We are living in a time that one has to see, hear and shut up,” said a San Salvadoran whose brother was killed. He does not wish to be identified for fear of sharing his brother’s fate.
One person is killed every hour in El Sa...

A study has revealed women are nearly three times more likely than men to appear either nude, or partially nude, in Hollywood cinema.
The annual Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California, undertaken by Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles, found that 26% of female characters in the top 100 films at the US box office in 2014 w...

Image matters in Cuba. When Barack Obama arrived at the airport in Havana last week, on the first visit by a US president in almost 90 years, his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, was not there to meet him.The 84-year-old former guerrilla fighter, whose future was forged in the Sierra Maestra mountains alongside Che Guevara, wanted the glamoro...

Many of those at the free concert were lifelong fans who for years had to keep quiet about their love of the Stones and other groups.
Mick Jagger welcomed fans in Spanish before opening the performance with the 1968 hit Jumpin' Jack Flash.
The concert comes days after a historic visit by US President Barack Obama.
'Time changes everything'
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Although the latest primary and caucus elections highlighted Donald Trump's continuing march to the Republican nomination for the US presidency, many in the US media chose to focus on the shock win for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic battle in Michigan.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Huffington Post were among those ...